Improved clothes-line reel



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Letters Patent No. 104,495, :lated .Tun- 21, 1870; autcdatel J'znw11, 1870.

` IMPROVED cLoTHEs-LINE REEL.

Be it known that I, DAVID D. IUGH, ofBrookiyn, in the `county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a newandimproved Clothes-line Reel vn ,ncllox Combined; and the following is hereby declared to be a full and clear description thereof.

Before my Ainvention a box had been made attached to a post; orfcnce, `into which the clothes-line was wound, and a box had also been made that could be hung'upon af hook. Neither of these devices was `adapted `to being carried from place to place; hence the line, as drawn out of the box,'had to be carried from one post to another inthe hand, and was li ble i to beconie dirty by `touching `the ground, and to get' knotted and twisted. p

My lnvention relatesto a box containing a reel for aclothes-line, and provided with a handle, in such a manner that the box can be carried from place to place with facility, either in giving out the line or in winding it up; hence the person `has only to connect theY 'end of the` line to the post or point of attachment, `and carry the `box to the nextrpost, the line drawing oi` the rcel, and being kept fromthe ground and from i becoiningtwisted `or knotted, the reverse operation being performed in winding up the line, the person rogating the` reel within the box, while walking from one point of attachment tothe next.

In the drawing- The cheule referred t'o in thse Letters Patent 'n making part of the seme.

a curare circular heads upon the axis b, forming-"a,

reel for the clothes-line c.

d l are the heads, and p e, the sidesof a box inclosing the reel, the saine being either-cylindrical or polygonal, as shown, and in one side of the box is a cover or slide, f, secured by a button, y, so'as to gre access to the reel for attachh. is a slot in the side, through which the line r; passes ont. a

The handle 7.1 is attached to -the box at the opposite end tothat at which the crank i projects from the arbor or axis b of the clothes-line reel.

In Figure 1 the box is shown sectionally, and

'In Figure 2 one end of the box is shown partially` broken open. c Y

It will be vseen that this box a eel combinedis vrery convenient in use, and keep the linein good condition.

What I claim as my improvement in portable clothes-line reel and box is I The arrangement of the handle 1.', in combination with box l e, reel a, and crank i, as constructed and shown, for the purpose described.

Dated Ngrember 2G, A. D. 1869. \Vitnesses: D- VI D D. PUGH. CHAS. H. Sm'm, n Gno. T. Prxoxxnr. 

